May 9, 2018
Uber hopes to have flying cars operating as soon as 2020. The company yesterday revealed its flying car prototype, capable of vertical takeoff and landing and able to fly between 1 000 and 2 000 feet above the ground. Although the vehicles are loosely based on...
May 8, 2018
Kathy Gibson is at the Deloitte Tech Trends launch – Digital disruption is not going away for at least the next 15 years – and organisations need to gear up to ensure they take advantage of new technologies. “Even if you are not engaging with it,...
May 7, 2018
FNB has launched a mini-ATM that uses biometrics as a means of consumer validation, a move the bank believes is a first for South Africa. The TouchPoint device functions as a self-service kiosk from which customers can conduct transactional banking such as...
May 4, 2018
Twitter has sent out a plea for all users to change their passwords, although it says there is no evidence that they have been hacked. Chief technology officer Parag Agrawal explains that the company uses technology masks to ensure no-one at the company can see the...
May 3, 2018
Intel and the China Foundation for Cultural Heritage Conservation have created a partnership to protect and restore the Great Wall of China. “Using drones, we are able to inspect multiple aspects of the structure including areas that are quite...
May 2, 2018
This week (5 May), NASA will launch its InSight spacecraft on a flight to Mars. InSight will be the first mission to peer deep beneath the Martian surface, studying the planet’s interior by measuring its heat output and listening for marsquakes, which are...
